Thanks. It sounds like you appreciate the challenges in shooting this. I shot a lot of images and many of them came out blurry. Moving at only 100 miles per hour (161 kilometers/hour), slow for most planes, the window was open. Holding onto the camera with a vise grip was mandatory. I thought the wind force was going to rip my 5D out of my hands more than a couple of times.

The focus is OK. I’m not too happy about all the noise. Shooting at an ISO 3200 at the shutter wide open at f2.8 was mandatory to keep the shutterspeed fast enough to prevent blur. I had to monkey with the blur tools in Photoshop to clean up the sky. Thanks for noticing.

It was fun, yes. I went up with my 12 year-old daughter. I sat in front with the pilot and she sat directly behind me. I was allowed to have the side window open, so her face was pelted by 100 mile per hour wind. You should have seen her hair when we landed. It was hilarious. We were both nervous at first, but once we got downtown, we were both mesmerized by the lights of the city and the whole flying experience. It was cool.